Not really.
The Mormons actually made themselves unwelcome.
They started in New York, where J Smith was run out of the state for fraud in 1825.
They then moved to Ohio, where Smith started a "bank" and swindled people out of thousands of dollars. It included filling strongboxes with sand and a top layer of coins, and issuing bank notes that were worthless. They got run out of Ohio.
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Smith then took his merry band of cultists to Missouri. They proceeded to try to take over a couple of counties by using terror squads called Danites. The governor of Missouri, Lilburn Boggs, issued an extermination order.
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They then moved across the river to Illinois, where Smith declared himself a Lt. General and organized his own private army. He also had a harem of little girls and other men's wives because that's what you do when you run a cult.
The difference between Joseph Smith and David Koresh?
Original and Extra Crispy!!!
Finally, the Mormons under Brigham "I like them" Young moved to Utah while the US was in the process of stealing the west from Mexico, hoping to set up his own country. (Seriously, these early Mormon leaders were like ******* Bond Villains!) This resulted in a farce known as the Utah War of 1857, where the Mormons bravely murdered a wagon train of settlers heading to California. The Army got quite fed up with this shit and put a bitchslap down on Young.
Ah, the missed opportunity. If only James Buchanan put them on trial for treason, hanged them, and sent the photos to Jefferson Davis as a warning. We could have avoided the Civil war.